adminDeer are ferocious eaters, and will hop over fences, close their nose to stinking smells and defer every scare tactics once they smell any of their favorite meals. They can stand on their hind legs to reach shrubs and branches which you would have thought were beyond their reach.
In times of severe hunger, deer will eat just about anything, including foods they personally detest. Their taste of food will depend on their location. You would be surprised that the deer that are always eating up your flowers all have different palates.
So, how do you keep these annoying pests away?
Odor Deterrents
Your choice of deterrent will depend on how fast the deer within your locality adapts to the smell of a particular deterrent. In most cases, odor deterrents last for only a few days. Some of the commonest and well, effective odor deterrents include:
- Hair
- Blood meal
- Bone Meal
- Putrescent Egg
- Garlic
- Onion
- Mothballs
- Thorny branches
- Decaying fishheads
- Fabric softener
- Processed sewage
- Repellent plants
Noise deterrents
- Whistles
- Flags
- Sprinklers
- Electric wires
- Firecrackers
- Floodlights
- Noisemakers
- Radios
Sprays
Certain sprays are effective enough to keep away deer. The most effective ones include soap spray, rotten-egg based spray and hot-pepper spray, which all can be bought in the market. Better still, you can lure the deer away from your property by planting some of their favorite deli somewhere far away from your garden.
Fences
Fencing up your garden happens to be the most effective technique for keeping deer out. For better results, ensure the fence you erect is deeply buried into the ground, and the gap between the fences isn’t more than 6 inches. Anything more than that will create an avenue for deer to squeeze themselves through. Also, the fence has to completely enclose your garden for it to work. The fence should at least stand at a height of 8 feet. It may surprise you to know that deer when desperate for food will scale through an 8-foot fence, unless that fence has some kind of deterrent like tree branches, shrubs and angled netting. The key is ensuring that deer has little or no space for taking off and landing.
Keeping deer out of your yard isn’t so much of a difficult task. Erecting fences, planting deer repellent plants, or simply using some scare tactics will sure do. The plan is to make your yard as less attractive as possible.
Deer repellent plants
Plants that are poisonous, bitter, aromatic, coarse or spiny in nature scare off deer. However, deer will have to have a taste themselves to know if they like or do not like the plants planted in your yard.
Unsure of which plant to use?
You can try of these trees and shrubs
Trees
- Hawthorn
- Black locust
- Cedar
- Hackberry
- False cypress
- Ginkgo
- Oak
- Palm trees
- Magnolia
- Spruce
- Japanese maple
Shrubs
- Butterfly bush
- Lilac
- Mahonia
- Currant
- Boxwood
- Heavenly bamboo
- Golden bamboo
- Mountain laurel
- Daphne
- Cotoneaster
- Holly
- Heath
- Flowering quince
- Burning bush
- Yucca
- Viburnum
- Spirea
- Tamerisk tree
- Smoke tree
- John’s Wort
- Potentialla
Perennials
- Bellflower
- Fern
- Iris
- Ajuga
- Aster
- Centaurea
- Cyclamen
- Black-eyed Susan
- Lupine
- Lavender
- Lamb’s ears
- Mint
- Yarrow
- Verbena
- Viola
- Phlox
- Fountain grass
- Thyme
- Veronica
- Salvia
- Tuberous begonia
- Oleander
- Penstemon
- Ornamental onion
- Rosemary
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